Motorcyle evolution process

[webbcraft2150]

We were hanging out in the garage the other night and we got off on the subject of bikes owned thru the years. I know some of us might have a longer list than others due to our two wheeled fetish or just plain old age. Anyway, heres mine in order of ownership:
Steens Taco 44 minibike (5hp Briggs)
Bonanza Hodaka Powered Mini Bike (death trap)
Hodaka Super Rat
Suzuki 100 (pressed steel frame, circa 1970).
Suzuki 200 Scrambler.
Yamaha RD200 electric start (I be bad, had "chambers")
Honda 450 Twin (first time doin a "c" note on the speedo).
73 Norton Combat Commando (permanent oil leak and Prince of Darkness electrical system, love those Amals)
76 Laverda SF750
78 Laverda 1000

[Street_Rat78]

At 25, my first and only bike to date is my XS11.

Can't really imagine myself owning anything else, except maybe a Midnight Special

[randy]

At 13 yrs old - Homebrew Raliegh 3-speed with a 4hp Briggs & Stratton mounted. Lot's of fun, but cops hated me!

At 18 yrs - Kawa KZ400 - first actual motorcycle.

Then,

Kawa H1 - nuts!

Kawa H2 - Death on Wheels

Honda CB450

Honda CM400 (for then- swmbo)

Suzi GS750

Yammy 81 SH ( kept this one when I dumped swmbo)

Yammy 79F Swamp Thing - finally got the bike I wanted when I was 20 but couldn't afford it! Then again, if I'd gotten it when I was 20, I'd probably have killed myself on it!

[bandet01]

well the only bike i have owned is a xs1100 and i dont think i could own anything smaller

[BLUEJEEPLAB]

At 15 A 74 Kaw KE-100
75 Suzuki TS 400
72 Honda CB 350 (first all street bike)
80 XS 400 Midnight Special
82 NightHawk (not bad for a Honda)
79 XT 500 (after a ten year hiatus)
79 XS 1100 Special - The Battle Cruiser has put the joy back in my biking.

[don07tncav]

Back in "76" a Yamaha 250 enduro.
Then a Yamaha 350 street bike.
Followed by a Harley bone rattling Sportster which I hated.
Next to a RE-5 Rotery Engine Suzuki which I kept for several years and was a great bike.
Mama let me get a Yamaha 650 MS.
We had kids, bikes went.
Kids left home, picked up my two XS's.

Now I'm looking at a Valk to do our touring on and keeping an XS to tool around on....

[JWSanders]

I had an RM-80 when I was a teen. Wrecked it after only a few months.

I got the XS11 when I was 35. Not a thing in between. Now I want several. Trying to relive my childhood, I think. I gotta avoid the whole wrecking thing now though I'm not nearly as pliable as I used to be.

[Bigfoot]

Always wanted a motorcycle. Didn't give in until last year. Bought a 1979 Honda twinstar. Repaired it, rode it, loved it, wanted something bigger. Found the XJ this spring. Repaired it, rode it, love it.

[motoman]

bikes owned

bout 66' had a yammy 80, then Trail Blazer tote-gote, yammy 65, also was a two-stroke, then came moto-crosers, Maico360, Maico400, Husky250, CZ250,Ossa Stiletto250,then in 74,Honda Elsinore250, 77Suzuki250(cause dats' what Roger Decoster was winnin on) SuzukiPE250, YamahaYZ490,Honda CR500,in 81the then newYamaha XS1100H Venturer, in 97 a 95SuzukiRM250,both of sons bikesthen, 95RM125 and a trick89 HondaCR125, now have the Honda ST 1100, YamahaYZ 250, daughters '02 YZ80, and of course the Venturer 1100 which I bought back after selling 15yrs. earlier. Never much thought bout how many till here.....dats a bunch of bikes, even at my age!

[motoman]

Hey JW.......your still young compared to me, and I still race mot-cross and super-x.....your still flexible.....just takes a bit longer to recover is all!

[petejw]

my first was a mini bike at 11, then
a yamaha dt175 traily,
first road bike was an xs250 '78 model, at 16 and 9 months
as soon as i could get a learners permit i got my bike,
another traily yamaha tt250, had a honda cbx750 which i thought was a pretty average bike, then didnt have a bike 4 yrs,
until i jumped on a mates bike at the beginning of the year. then got the bug back big time, looked in the paper found the biggest and cheapest bike that was selling that week which was the xs1100. Then after reading all the history and riding it, fell in luv with it.
Ill keep this 1 till it dies, hopefully that wont b for many more yrs.
to come.

pete

[LoserShoes]

Harly Hummer 165 2 stroke
Ducati 98 Bronco
1948 Indain Chief
yamaha 305 Big Bear?
*Norton Atlas
*Ducati 250 Scrambler
*Norton Electra
Ducati 250 Street bike
Yamaha RD400
*CZ 400 MX
Another Indian Chief breifly
Yamaha Radian 600 ( '87-'02)
*XS1100G

* still own

Thought the list would be longer, but thats what I remeber.

Steve

[wingnut]

1964 Vespa
100 Yamaha twin (engine in a box, first rebuild project at 16)
160 Honda
350 Honda with a big bore kit installed
XS650 Special (I came back from the dark side) had it for 2 years
and traided it in on a new
1980 XS1100 Special which I had for 2 years than obtained wife and kids. Shortly there after bike sold to a good home.
Long time to wait but just got the 81 SH and I now remember what fun an 1100 is

[xj11john]

My first bike was a Suzuki 90, paid 90 bucks for it at age 12

Next bike was a Kaw 125 enduro at 15-got restricted licence and it was my first street/dirt bike on the road.

next was a Honda CB360 at 17-that baby would fly.

And finally my XJ 1100 at age 38, with nothing in between 17 & 38,
(only thing had a shop do so far was synch it-guy that owns shop goes to same church, and only charged $25).

Love it, Ride it, fix it,

[fredintoon]

I think I remember most of them

These are the bikes that I registered & rode while in England, between 1954 & 1969. Some only for a few months, sometimes two or three at one time.
1952 Cyclemaster 32cc bicycle attachment.
1932 James 196cc
1941 (Ex army) Royal Enfield 350cc
193? Montgomery-JAP
1932, '33, 2x'37 350cc OHC KSS Velocettes
1954 James 197cc
1952 BSA 350 Gold Star trials
193? New Imperial 250cc trials
193? Velocette MOV 250cc Special
1951 BSA A7 500cc twin
195? Douglas Vespa 125cc scooter
1954 Royal Enfield 350cc Bullet
1941 (Ex army) Norton 16H + Swallow cargo sidecar
1957 BSA B33 500cc + Garrard GP sidecar
1951 BSA Bantam 125cc
1953 BSA Gold Flash 650cc + Garrard GP sidecar
1958 Ariel Red Hunter 500cc
On emigrating to Canada, from 1974 to date.
1953 Triumph Thunderbird 650cc
1965 Jawa 350cc
1968 Royal Enfield Interceptor 750cc
1969 Triumph Bonneville 650cc
1972 Honda CB350
1974 Honda CB450
197? Honda 90
1984 Yamaha XS650*
1970 BSA 250cc*
1972 Suzuki GT750
1978 Yamaha XS650 + S of A Sidecar
1980 Yamaha XS11SG* + S of A Sidecar*
That's 32 bikes in 51 years omitting the odd bought'n'sold basket case and likely a few I've forgotten. If I'd only crated up some of those old Britbikes instead of selling them off for a pittance back then I'd be a lot wealthier now.
Fred Hill, S'toon.
*these are still with me.
F.